Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Pawn - (Hong Kong)

The Pawn is part of the Classified Cheese Group, they have a few places in town with a Cheese Room, Mozzarella Bars, and over at SML in Times Square they offer different sized portions of Western Food. My favourite is at The Pawn, as the food is more serious and has a British Accent. I am probably a bit biased towards here because of the British emphasis, please pardon me ! I like Britain stuff too much

Savoury Section of the Low Tea Set -I liked the Rhug Estate sausage roll but think the pastry could be baked a bit more browned! There is also a J Forman smoked salmon sandwich. The Stilton Quiche and Walnuts tart was pretty good, except the pastry base was a little hard. But overall enjoyable. Thought the sandwiches had too thin a filling - apparently the restaurant will be improving on these..

Sausage Roll -Needs to be baked more and served with real Ketchup

Stilton Blue Cheese and Walnut Quiche -Loved the flavour of this, the crust could be more softened but it was buttery enough : )

Sweet Layer of the Low Tea -- Burnt Cambridge Cream Tart - one of my favourites on the day- Strawberries filled with Champagne Cheesecake - didn't like the very sour and tart balance of this, especially when the Strawberry is not sweet enough.- Sticky Toffee Pudding & Toffee Jelly - The shortening filled texture of this was quite accurate, but the toffee wasn't burnt enough and made it more too sugary. I think it also needed a real toffee sauce.- Malted Chocolate Cup Cake - the texture was perfect but it was kind of too sweet.

Sticky Toffee Pudding & Toffee Jelly -

Strawberries filled with Champagne Cheesecake -Missing balance in flavours… ummmm.Too alcoholic and too sour. Not helped by the sour Strawberry itself, which tasted totally Australian sour..

Scones with Raspberry Jam and Clotted Cream -I liked the clotted cream. The scones on my side were deemed decent but other tables thought it was a little too compressed dense to cut through. If I had one complaint, it was that the Raspberry Jam wasn't cooked enough to release it's deeper dark forest flavours

Chef who is in charge of The Pawn overall, including downstairs The Living Room -

Fried Pigs Ears and Sardines -No longer on the menu at The Living Room downstairs. Can they please bring it back? I used to adore it.

Scotched Egg -Their Scotched egg here used to have too little meat, but now it has improved. Loving it !

Welsh Rarebit - Didn’t have much Stout Taste, but served with some corned beef.Thought it was quite cheesy but needed more stout !

.Devils on Horse Back -Pitted dates wrapped in Bacon. So British ..Also no longer on the Menu downstairs. What happened?

Radish Salad -Quite mustard like and fresh… refreshingly good

Fish Bites and Chips, with real Malted Vinegar and Ketchup -This was done pretty well indeed… one of the best ones in town

Draft British Beer -

More Beer -

Even More Beer LOL -

More Cocktail -

More Cocktails doesn’t hurt !

The Pawn is one of my favourites restaurants amongst the Group -Apart from The Globe and The Chinnery

Let’s have another Cocktail then..

Price: HKD $150 Per PersonEase of Access: 4/5 (Near Wanchai MTR Station)Food: ♕♕♕♕ to ♕♕♕♕ 1/2 (Been here many times but the Afternoon Tea bit was by Invitation)